Plank is a popular application launcher dock in Linux. By default, most application desktop entries do not provide any additional actions. Say we want to add an open ‘new window’ action to our desktop entry for pkgbrowser:

Our desktop entry file looks as follows:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=PkgBrowser
GenericName=Package Browser
Comment=A utility for browsing pacman databases and the AUR
Exec=pkgbrowser
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=pkgbrowser
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Qt;System;
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Simply add the following to the end of the file. Of course, if your desktop entry already has a defined Actions property, you’ll want to add this new-window to it.

Actions=new-window;

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=New Window
Exec=pkgbrowser
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Now, right-clicking the desktop entry will appear as follows:

By default, any desktop entries that come from packages for your Linux distro will be overwritten during a package update. To prevent this from happening, you can made the file read-only using chattr:

sudo chattr +i /usr/share/applications/pkgbrowser.desktop

If the gcc version being used is incompatible with cuda version, there will be errors such as:

[ 68%] Building NVCC (Device) object src/nvtt/CMakeFiles/cuda_compile_1.dir/cuda/cuda_compile_1_generated_CompressKernel.cu.o
/usr/include/c++/10.1.0/type_traits(1396): error: type name is not allowed

/usr/include/c++/10.1.0/type_traits(1396): error: type name is not allowed

/usr/include/c++/10.1.0/type_traits(1396): error: identifier "__is_same_as" is undefined

3 errors detected in the compilation of "/home/nick/Code/Git/github.com/nvidia-texture-tools/src/nvtt/cuda/CompressKernel.cu".
CMake Error at cuda_compile_1_generated_CompressKernel.cu.o.Release.cmake:280 (message):
  Error generating file
  /home/nick/Code/Git/github.com/nvidia-texture-tools/cmake-build-release/src/nvtt/CMakeFiles/cuda_compile_1.dir/cuda/./cuda_compile_1_generated_CompressKernel.cu.o


make[2]: *** [src/nvtt/CMakeFiles/nvtt.dir/build.make:85: src/nvtt/CMakeFiles/cuda_compile_1.dir/cuda/cuda_compile_1_generated_CompressKernel.cu.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:721: src/nvtt/CMakeFiles/nvtt.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:183: all] Error 2
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

See discussion on GitHub: CUDA Build error on Arch Linux and CUDA Compilers – nvcc compatibility chart.

This can be resolved by using an earlier version of GCC which is compatible with the CUDA version. In my example setting the following CMake variable resolved the issue:

	-DCUDA_HOST_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc-9Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

The default version of gcc in the Arch Linux repositories is now gcc10:

➜  ~ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/c++
/usr/bin/c++ is owned by gcc 10.1.0-2Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

This can result in errors during linking while building packages, such as:

[ 75%] Linking CXX executable ../../../../../bin/sst_conn_tool
/usr/bin/ld: ../../../../../lib/libadios2_core.so.2.6.0: undefined reference to `int adios2::format::DataManSerializer::GetData<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >*, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > const&, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > const&, unsigned long, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > const&, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: ../../../../../lib/libadios2_core.so.2.6.0: undefined reference to `int adios2::format::DataManSerializer::GetData<float>(float*, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > const&, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > const&, unsigned long, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > const&, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > const&)'Code language: PHP (php)

This issue can be resolved by compiling with an earlier version of gcc:

➜  ~ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/g++-9
/usr/bin/g++-9 is owned by gcc9 9.3.0-3

Setting these CMake variables will result in using the gcc9 version of gcc, g++, gcc-ar, and gcc-ranlib:

        -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/g++-9 \
        -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_AR=/usr/bin/gcc-ar-9 \
        -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_RANLIB=/usr/bin/gcc-ranlib-9 \
        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc-9 \
        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_AR=/usr/bin/gcc-ar-9 \
        -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_RANLIB=/usr/bin/gcc-ranlib-9 \Code language: JavaScript (javascript)